Hi Jacopo,

It appears that I misunderstood what you meant, as you wrote:

'However, it would be nice if we could configure this behavior in order to
download only the required jars when a release is built'.

Best regards,


Pierre Smits

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On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Jacopo Cappellato <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Pierre,
>
> this is not what I said, please read what I wrote carefully: the release
> package (a source release) will not contain binary jars; the required jars
> (external dependencies) will be downloaded at build time by the user; in
> this process source files for the external dependencies are not required.
>
> Jacopo
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Jacopo,
> >
> > Are we talking binary releases (the convenient downloads) for our
> adopters?
> >
> > Because, according to conventions of the ASF, external libraries are not
> > allowed in our source release branches. And that is why we use the Gradle
> > solution and have download definitions. So that we don't have that
> > (external libraries) when we cut a release.
> >
> > Best regards,.
> >
> > Pierre Smits
> >
> > ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>
> > OFBiz based solutions & services
> >
> > OFBiz Extensions Marketplace
> > http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Jacopo Cappellato <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > This is very useful for development, thanks for sharing the tip Taher.
> > > However, it would be nice if we could configure this behavior in order
> to
> > > download only the required jars when a release is built: we should
> > explore
> > > this option as well.
> > >
> > > Jacopo
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Taher Alkhateeb <
> > > [email protected]
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Everyone,
> > > >
> > > > One of the very nice things I discovered a while back is that Gradle
> > > > automatically downloads The Source libraries for the jar dependencies
> > for
> > > > almost all of the libraries.
> > > >
> > > > This means that you can ctrl-click with your IDE to navigate the
> source
> > > > code of these external libraries which I find very helpful for
> > debugging.
> > > >
> > > > So just wanted to share that for anyone who might want to take
> > advantage
> > > of
> > > > this
> > > >
> > > > Taher Alkhateeb
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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